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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Feb 27, 2012 - Mar 5, 2012

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On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society cover

1. On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

by Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman

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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World cover

2. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

by Jack Weatherford

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Large-Scale C++ Software Design cover

3. Large-Scale C++ Software Design

by John Lakos

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The Geek Atlas cover

4. The Geek Atlas

by John Graham-Cumming

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Blocking the Courthouse Door: How the Republican Party and Its Corporate Allies Are Taking Away Your Right to Sue cover

5. Blocking the Courthouse Door: How the Republican Party and Its Corporate Allies Are Taking Away Your Right to Sue

by Stephanie Mencimer

The Lawyer Myth: A Defense of the American Legal Profession cover

6. The Lawyer Myth: A Defense of the American Legal Profession

by Rennard Strickland, Frank T. Read

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PHP Objects, Patterns and Practice (Expert's Voice in Open Source) cover

7. PHP Objects, Patterns and Practice (Expert's Voice in Open Source)

by Matt Zandstra

The Joy of Clojure: Thinking the Clojure Way cover

8. The Joy of Clojure: Thinking the Clojure Way

by Michael Fogus, Chris Houser

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The Real Toy Story : Inside the Ruthless Battle for Britain's Youngest Consumers cover

9. The Real Toy Story : Inside the Ruthless Battle for Britain's Youngest Consumers

by Eric Clark

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Hacker's Delight cover

10. Hacker's Delight

by Henry S. Warren

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Jane's All the World's Aircraft (IHS Jane's All the World's Aircraft) cover

11. Jane's All the World's Aircraft (IHS Jane's All the World's Aircraft)

by PAUL ED. JACKSON, David Willis

The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles cover

12. The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken

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Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node cover

13. Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node

by Mike Amundsen, Michael Amundsen

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Professional haXe and Neko cover

14. Professional haXe and Neko

by Franco Ponticelli, Lee McColl-Sylveste

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haXe 2 Beginner's Guide cover

15. haXe 2 Beginner's Guide

by Benjamin Dasnois

Winning the Profit Game: Smarter Pricing, Smarter Branding cover

16. Winning the Profit Game: Smarter Pricing, Smarter Branding

by Robert G. Docters

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Second Edition cover

17. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Second Edition

by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman

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How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library) cover

18. How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)

by George Polya

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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) cover

19. Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)

by Tom Vanderbilt

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Programming from the Ground Up cover

20. Programming from the Ground Up

by Jonathan Bartlett, Dominick Bruno

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Surreptitious Software: Obfuscation, Watermarking, and Tamperproofing for Software Protection: Obfuscation, Watermarking, and Tamperproofing for Software Protection cover

21. Surreptitious Software: Obfuscation, Watermarking, and Tamperproofing for Software Protection: Obfuscation, Watermarking, and Tamperproofing for Software Protection

by Christian Collberg, Jasvir Nagra

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Evening's Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe (New Studies in European History) cover

22. Evening's Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe (New Studies in European History)

by Craig Koslofsky

Machine Man (Vintage Contemporaries) cover

23. Machine Man (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Max Barry

21 Dog Years: A Cube Dweller's Tale cover

24. 21 Dog Years: A Cube Dweller's Tale

by Mike Daisey